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Latin-themed shows reach untapped market
Dismayed by the lack of Latinos on television shows, and discouraged by the negative manner in which they're sometimes portrayed, a number of young writers and producers are trying to change the way the United States views its largest ethnic group.

  


CHARLIE MCCOLLUM  
Mercury News
   November's winners (`Smallville'), losers (Fox)
In the wake of the (November) sweeps: The big winner in November: The WB, which saw a big jump in viewership and now has a series, ``Smallville,'' that regularly challenges the big networks in the ratings.

CHUCK BARNEY  
Contra Costa Times
Sci-fi fans should be 'Taken' with epic miniseries
Steven Spielberg wants you to have another close encounter of the extraterrestrial kind. Only now he's making greater demands on your attention span: 20 hours, to be exact. That's how much screen time is taken up by "Taken," an epic 10-part miniseries executive-produced by Spielberg for cable's Sci Fi Channel that dramatizes more than a half-century of alien abduction and UFO mythology.
  





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